Is there any way to navigate/access cloud files using the direct abfss URI (no mount) with default python functions/libs like open() or os.listdir()?

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Hello,

Today on our workspace we access everything via mount points, we plan to change it to "abfss://" because of security, governance and performance reasons. The problem is sometimes we interact with files using "python only" code, and apparently it does not work with the abfss URI.

Does anyone have any solution to be able to do something like this?

with open('abfss://urlofcloudstorage/container/file.txt') as f:
    data = f.read()

dbutils works with abfss, I would be able to copy from abfss to a tmp folder within dbfs and then read with python, but I have doubts if this is ideal.

Thanks, any input is appreciated.